Cross Country Media Guide

1 4 | 2 0 1 7 K U T Z T OW N U N I V E R S I T Y C R O S S C O U N T R Y 2017 Golden Bears - Returners Career Honors 2016 Team Captain 2x National Qualifier (2015, 2016) 3x All-Region (2014, 2015, 2016) 3x All-PSAC (2015, 2016 First Team; 2014 Second Team) 2014 PSAC Freshman of the Year 2015 KU Male Freshman of the Year 3x Team MVP (2014, 2015, 2016) PSAC Athlete of the Week (9/29/14) 2017: Redshirt year. 2016: Finished 108th at the National Championships, which was the ninth-best finish in program history (11/19)...Finished fourth overall at the NCAA Atlantic Regionals, the best male finish at regionals in school history. This performance qualified him for the NCAA National Championships (11/5)...All-PSAC First Team honors for his eighth-place run at the PSAC Championships at KU (10/22)...Recorded an eighth-place finish at the Mack Cooper Invitational (10/8)...Placed fourth at the Division II/III Challenge (9/17)...Finished fourth at the Stonehill Invitational, his first top-five finish since KU’s season-opener in 2015, when he finished third (9/3). 2015: Maine had a stellar sophomore season for the Golden Bears, competing in six races and recording five top-15 finishes. He finished third overall at the Dutchmen Invitational and eighth at the Division II/III Challenge. He was outstanding in postseason competition, placing 14th with a time of 25:56.3 at the PSAC Championships and seventh at the NCAA Atlantic Region Champion- ships. He earned All-PSAC First Team honors for placing in the top-15, his second consecutive All-PSAC performance. Maine also earned All-Region status for the second year in a row for finishing in the top-25. He capped off his incredible sophomore campaign with a 72nd-place showing at the NCAA National Championships, the first top-75 finish for a KU runner since 1992...Completed the Paul Short Invitational in 12th out of 354 runners with a season-best time of 25:11 (10/2)...Finished eighth at the Division II/ III Challenge with a time of 26:32.1 (9/19)...Finished third at the Dutchmen Invitational with a time of 26:13 (9/5). 2014: Named the PSAC Freshman of the Year (12/16)...Earned All-Region honors as a freshman with a 13th place finish at the NCAA Atlantic Regional Championships at Slippery Rock. He was the top finishing freshman in the field (11/22)...Finished in 19th place as the second-highest freshman finisher for All-PSAC Second Team honors at the PSAC Championships with a time of 25:22 (11/8)...Named PSAC Athlete of the Week (9/29)...Won the Don Cathcart Invitational with a time of 25:10 (9/27)...Was the top fin- isher for Kutztown in his first collegiate race and finished in eighth place with a time of 19:35 at the Galen Piper Invitational (9/5). STEVE MAINE 5-10 Senior Laurel Springs, N.J. / Highland Regional Major: Sport Management Personal Bests Event Indoor Outdoor 8K (XC) -- 25:10 10K (XC) -- 30:55.40 800m -- 1:57.56 1500m -- 3:59.20 Mile 4:21.57 -- 3000m 8:37.82 9:40.17 5000m 15:13.22 14:37.28 10,000m -- 30:31.35